The University of California has stopped requiring diversity statements, earning mixed reactions
Trump administration is applying financial pressure to guide federally-funded schools away from DEI practices.
University of California to Order Hiring Pause as It Braces for Funding Cuts
The University of California will impose a system-wide hiring freeze to rein in costs as the university braces for potential ...
University of California Will Stop Requiring Diversity Statements in Hiring
The statements had risen in popularity as colleges sought to improve campus culture, but they drew criticism from ...
UC Berkeley's $443 million fix for student housing crunch moves forward
More than 2,400 beds have been delivered at the university since 2018, with the completion of the 755-bed Blackwell Hall, 775 ...
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University of California bans use of diversity statements in hiring
The decision came from the UC Board of Regents, who are currently gathered at UCLA in their first meeting since the federal ...
Less is more: UC Berkeley and Google unlock LLM potential through simple sampling
The current popular method for test-time scaling in LLMs is to train the model through reinforcement learning to generate longer responses with chain-of-thought (CoT) traces. This approach is used in ...
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Why was a brilliant kid rejected by the University of California?
Stanley Zhong was rejected by admissions officers at UC Berkeley, UCLA, Davis, San Diego and Santa Barbara – every ...
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UC Berkeley faculty lead protest against federal threat to education
Approximately 300 students and faculty gathered on Sproul Plaza for the “Rally to Defend Our University” to protest ongoing ...
New Berkeley VC fund advances in key committee vote
A proposal to launch a new VC fund at UC Berkeley has cleared a key committee vote and will advance to the full UC Regents ...